Comparing and Contrasting Casino Royale and The Spy Who Loved Me

The text After the First Death by Robert Cormier and the film V for Vendetta directed by James McTigue represent terrorism in ways that allow us as the audience to respond differently to each. The terrorists, V in V for Vendetta and Artkin in After the First Death both perform terrorising actions; however, I sympathise and correspond with V but consider the opposite for Artkin. V is seen as a revolutionary as he has a considerate and rational mind, he eradicates only those who commit immoral deeds to the society. In contrast, Artkin is presented as an emotionless killing machine able to murder without remorse. Thus, I feel hatred and fear towards Artkin, although both terrorists share similar motives. The terrorists are masked to hide their identities; however, we perceive them to have different ideas. Both terrorists use violence to present their ideas of anarchy, I understand V’s motive is to prevail justice for the people, therefore, deem his actions as necessary, whereas Artkin is willing to murder innocence to acquire freedom. After the First Death and V for Vendetta, both portray that terrorism has unseen motives and ideas, which make me as an audience question whether terrorism benefits or destroys the society.

It is my intention to compare the book, Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, to its modern movie version, Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I intend to examine how the original French text was modified in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes. I also plan to discuss how these transformations change the meaning of the story and reflect different cultural/historical contexts. There are some major differences between these two works, if only because of when they were written.

     Many time in our lives, we have seen the transformation of novels into movies. Some of them are equal to the novel, few are superior, and most are inferior. Why is this? Why is it that a story that was surely to be one of the best written stories ever, could turn out to be Hollywood flops? One reason is that in many transformations, the main characters are changed, some the way they look, others the way they act. On top of this, scenes are cut out and plot is even changed. In this essay, I will discuss some of the changes made to the characters of the Maltese Falcon as they make their transformation to the ?big screen.?

While some of the events are not the same, a majority of the differences are tiny details. For example, in the book Socrates has a photo of Theresa, his ex-girlfriend, hanging in his kitchen by the window. In the picture, Theresa is wearing a red dress but in the movie she is in a white dress. The book also tells the reader that Socrates spent twenty-seven years in prison and was released eight years ago; in the movie; he only served eighteen years and had only been out for ten months.

Unlike the first, the boy actually lost his mother from a battle with cancer. This shows how different our world is today. It also shows his motivation behind his urge to dance and his movement against the council in the town. The second movie has the same script and outline as the first. The difference is the way the characters walk, talk, and act. They wear clothes that are more dated to our pop culture now. Also this movie is different in the fact that nowadays it would be very rare and very uncommon for a city to ban dancing. Have you seen Miley Cyrus lately? I mean she isn’t the first to do something crazy. In my opinion, this second movie is viewed and focused more along the lines of the love story between the boy and the rebellious girl. The film and the tunes were intertwined to create a pop-culture phenomenon unlike any we're likely to see anymore, outside of perhaps "Glee," simply because we consume entertainment so differently 27 years later (Lemire). I personally love the second one, but it wasn’t a big deal to everyone like the first was. I never even knew about it until it came on the television one day while I was bored watching TV. Our culture today is more worried and focused on other things. No one cares about old timey tales of little things that government or church kept us from doing. Everyone pretty much does what they want to.

Samuel Spade of The Maltese Falcon novel by Dashiell Hammett is quite different from Samuel Spade of “The Maltese Falcon” motion picture. The book was written a good decade before that version of the movie was produced and in a much more casual time period. The novel focuses on making Sam out to be a more complex character than the movie does. He is not just “the good guy” as he is portrayed more so in the movie. The time period may have had a lot to do with the differences between the 1941 movie and the book, published in 1929. The first thing to consider is that the late 1920’s were a much more relaxed, party era, while the early 1940’s were an era of strict decorum. While

     First off, the biggest difference is the time periods of each movie. The older movie was set in Early Renaissance times. The newer movie is set in the early ninety’s. Another difference is the use of special effects. In the

    The first major difference that caught my eye is the similar love interest in the Departed. In this rendition, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) both share an interest with the police psychiatrist. This adds a unique way to connect the characters. Throughout the film, Billy and Colin never met or interacted with each other. However, with both of them visiting the psychiatrist, it provides them with a connection. This creates a sense of knowledge to the audience. It gives a sense of a what-if scenario. When I learned of this same love interest, I kept thinking “what if they both decided to meet her at the same time, what would happen”. This gave me a suspense not like other murder thrillers, but more of a what if they finally meet moment.

Do you ever have a moment where you just sit there and daydream? If you ask me it can be pretty dangerous if you do it at the wrong time! So you should watch what you do so you won't be like Walter Mitty. In the short story of “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber there are a lot of differences and very little similarities, in my opinion i say the movie was way better.

The Count of Monte Cristo and the movie, “The Count of Monte Cristo” were similar but more different. The movie changes and adds events that the book to ways they would have liked the book to be. The movie makers like to put twist in the book not only so it is more interesting, but also to make to make the story shorter to fit into the movie. The movie likes to change characters to name a few: Fernand Mondego, Edmond Dantes, Danglar, Mercedes, and Abbe Faria.

Using the James Bond films, You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale, discuss how Bond meets the criteria of a hero.

The debate over Casablanca and Citizen Kane has been a classic argument between film critics and historians alike, and this is because both of these pieces are timeless pictures that have managed to captivate audiences well after their era. On a broad spectrum analysis this is an apples and oranges debate as the two films both have great cinematographic value but for different reasons. However, the real question at hand is which film is the greatest? Which film transformed the future of American film making? It is these questions that I as many others have, will attempt to answer in the following essay as I explain why I believe Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made.

There could be several difference from a films portrayal of a serial killer when comparing them with facts. The media portrayal of a common criminal can be seen as the psychopathic criminal, or super-villain with characteristic they may seem indestructible. It’s what calls the attention of many viewers. The criminal may possess superior strength (book). Crime in films may be acts of revenge, or just irrational violence. In addition to a serial killer portrayal, films show criminals to be more violent and show their crime to appear more graphic (book). But the fact is that many crimes that is shown in the media are less likely to really occur in real life. The violent crime presented in film may over represented than what really is. Furthermore,

The film is about a group of 5 people fighting to find and keep the

The two movies, Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind, are both amazing movies about psychology aspects. In Rain Man, the main characters are Raymond and Charlie Babbitt, two brothers who go on road trip. At first, the reason for the trip was so that Charlie could get Raymond to give him 1.5 million dollars, half of the money left behind by their recently deceased father. Charlie and Raymond both spend a lot of time together during this trip, going from place to place, hotel to hotel, while Charlie begins to understand more about Raymond. A little while later into the trip, Charlie discovers Raymond's ability with numbers, and has him using card counting in a casino to pay back the debts of his company. Charlie then begins to care for his brother more, and is there now just to spend time with him, and fights for custody of his brother from the doctors who looked after Raymond. Eventually, Charlie gives up Raymond for his health and well-being, as it was safer in the clinic rather than with him. In the other movie, A Beautiful Mind, we see a brilliant man named John Nash and his journey through life. When we begin we see him arriving at an institute, and we see immediately he does not have good social relations with other people. At first the movie is slow, and we see him trying to think of an original project for his classes, his amazing skill in mathematics, and his overall social awkwardness. But, as he progresses, we see he